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Low Self-esteem

Low Self-esteem

Weak Emotional Immune System.

Self-esteem includes both general self-worth and how we feel about ourselves in specific domains of our lives - and the impact of the second one on the first depends critically on how important we consider that domain.

Low self-esteem makes us more vulnerable to other psychological wounds, like failure and rejection. Further, with low self-esteem come worse moods, pessimism, lack of motivation, dissatisfaction.

However, the target is the average: too high self-esteem (narcissism) is a problem as well.

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I want to be a human being, not a human doing.

Guy Winch offers great insights in our psychological processes, and gives suggestions to overcome the pain.

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